My favorite are these 1/2 gallon freezer jars. They are perfect for storing beans and rice, and they look good on open shelves. I always freeze my dry beans for two weeks after purchasing, and so far I haven't had any trouble with bugs hatching out in them.
These jars, a throw-back to the old cracker jars, look really nice on the shelf. My main problem with them is the threading on the lids. It is hard to get the lid back on once you take it off. I have an old jar, an original, and this newer one here that I keep my oatmeal in. If the threading was better, I'd have lots of these jars!
For behind pantry doors, I like these cereal storage containers. They are inexpensive and you can easily get a couple of boxes of crackers in them, or several bags of brown or powdered sugar, and of course they are perfect for cereal. I'd love to hear any of your ideas on kitchen storage. I'm constantly trying to find ways to organize this small room!
Hi Mary, If I were at home I'd show you what I use but I'm not there so I'll try to describe them. :) I use antique blue Ball or Mason jars on my counter top to hold flour, sugar, rice, brown sugar, and corn meal mix...things I use really often. Everything else from pasta to beans to baking soda to nuts I store in plastic jars with lids that I found at WalMart. They are somewhere between the big jars you showed and the cereal containers...have a lidded top like the jars but are see-through plastic. They come in two sizes, quart and half gallon (or is it half gallon/gallon..not sure) and I've been buying a couple each time I go to WalMart for a while now. That means I have several now but they will stack on top of each other and I can see into each one so I really like them. Things that might look alike, like plain flour and self-rising flour, I just cut the name off the sack and stick it down in the edge so it shows through the flour. Hope that makes sense. :) blessings, marlene
ReplyDeleteI love all your storage jars:) I just printed out the recipe for the refrigerator pickles, gonna try them tomorrow after I get the pickling spices,we are getting too many cucumbers too fast for the two of us!!!
ReplyDeleteRight now, my cabinet storage is a hodge podge of plastic cereal containers, plastic bowls, and mason jars. Not the prettiest, but it works for me.
ReplyDeleteI, too, am searching out new storage containers. I found some really cute glass jars at a thrift store recently and hope to store dried beans in them. Where did you find the large ball jars in the first pic? I love those!
ReplyDeletePen Pen, I bought the 2 quart jars at my local grocery store. Wal Mart doesn't carry them, but a grocery store that carries canning supplies would be your best place to look.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of the jars to store things. They look so nice in your cabinets. Have a great day. connie
ReplyDeleteI love storing things in jars, too. I also use the old style TupperWare canisters for my Bisquick, oatmeal, brown sugar, confectionery sugar and such. In yellow, of course, one of my favorite colors for the kitchen.
ReplyDeleteMary-I used jars too-and I think they keep things fresher.
ReplyDeleteThose are wonderful ideas, Rose Mary! I love keeping my baking supplies in airtight containers~ I always make labels for them for the self-rising or plain and I can grab them in a snap off the shelf that way.
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